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the sayd shipp from Porstmouth toward the downes on or about the [XXXX GUTTER] last of November 1652, and being in his course thitherward upon the first of december next after, and the weather being thicke and foggie, hee happened to come neere the dutch ffleete of warr which then lay neere dungenesse and having discovered what danger the foggie weather had brought him into, the sayd Captaine caused the Luffe of his sayd shipp ''hercules'' to be sprung, and edged toward the shoare, thereby to gett the weather gage of the dutch fleete or of soe many of them as hee could, and was engaged with two of the sayd ffleete who discharged broad sides at him and hee at them and the sayd Captaine stood first to the Eastward of the Nesse, and afterwards endeavoured to gett under Sangate Castle with his shipp for her better security, and in soe doeing, accidentally, rann her a ground about a myle or lesse from shoare, And further to those articles hee cannot depose To the 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th articles hee saith that the sayd shipp being soe accidentally runne on ground, the sayd captaine commanded all his company to keepe aboard the shipp, and plye their gunnes, and defend her against the enymye as longe as they could, and declared that his intens was when hee had defended her as long as hee could that rather then shee should fall into the hands of the enymie his intente was to destroy her either by fyreing or sinkeing her, and then hee and the company would make to shoare in the long boate and the two other boates belonging to the sayd shipp, but divers of the Company videlicet this deponent and most of the persons arlate and others in all to the number of forty or fifty persons, (contrary to the sayd Captaines Command) gott into the longe boate intending to desert and forsake the shipp and goe to shoare, which the sayd Captaine seeing callled out to them, and standing with Cap in hands, sayd as followeth or the like in effect videlicet, Gentlemen I desyre you to come aboard againe, wee have halfe an howers tyme to sp[XX GUTTER] wherein wee may doe something to destroy the shipp (meaning the ''hercules''), that shee may not become a prize to the enymye, and if you doe not, I shall reaceave disgrace, and you will loose your wages, therefore I pray you come aboard againe, whereupon hee this deponent and some others that were gotten into the longe boate did come out of her and went aboard the shipp againe as the Captaine desyred them, and the arlate Robert Everard Martyn Coxeman Thomas [XXXer] John Price Mathew Killman John Rowland Robert Catlyn Stephen Earle William Stoakes (and divers others whose names hee remembreth not) contrary to the sayd Captaines Commands and notwithsatnding his entreaties aforesayd, did continue in the longe boate and refused to come aboard, and went ashoare with the sayd long boate, by which meanes the Captaine and those that stayed behinde with him aboard (being more by fower or five then the two smale boates of the shipp which were left could beare to shoare) were deprived of the benefitt of putting their designe in act of fyreing or sinkeing the sayd shipp for that if they should have soe done the other persons aforesayd being gone away
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